Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s time to give some thanks. Certainly if you’re in the U.S. today—but, honestly, there’s never a bad time to do it. Think about everything for which you have to be thankful…because there’s a lot. Think back to the purported first Thanksgiving—the best elements of that story, which is a complicated one, I know. Think back a thousand years before that. Realize that everyone who lived and everything that transpired did so to lead up to this moment—to your existence and your life. We know all the the great shifts and great figures that show up in history books, but what of the faceless millions that trudged alongside, working and living and laughing and suffering? Most people who lived never made it very far. Most human lineages trail off and die. You are the chosen few who can trace their history through wars and famine and pestilence and genocides and environmental catastrophe, all the way back to the primordial soup. Your ancestral line has survived hundreds of millions of years.